Sunday, May 29, 2016

What a sad way to end your life's journey! Abigail, one of the victims
of a Libya based human trafficking ring operating in Nigeria, has di.ed,
days after she was rescued from a pr0stitution cartel in Libya.

It was reported that 26yrs old Abigail, a Nigerian lady from the
South-South, was among more than 500 girls trafficked to Libya for
pr0stitution by a Nigerian syndicate allegedly led by a couple, Alhaji
Muritala Sanni and his wife Alhaja Lateefat Sanni, who are now on the
run.

According to Mirror, Tunde Oshokoya, a
human rights activist and private investigator who worked with the
Alliance of Rights Defenders (ARD), a non-profit organisation based in
Lagos involved in rescuing three of the trafficked girls revealed
Abigail’s death.

He said “It is with heavy heart that we announce
Abigail’s passing. She died after a brief illness she came down with
while she was in Libya. Since we rescued her, we took her for treatment
but she gave up the ghost. “It is sad that ARD, an NGO took up the
responsibility to rescue and rehabilitate trafficked victims without any
assistance from government”. Barrister Ojay Akinwale, the Chief
Executive Officer of ARD expressed sadness over the death and urged
government to take human trafficking seriously.

Mirror had
reported that Abigail was among three trafficked victims rescued from
pr0stitution in Libya by ARD. She had claimed in the interview that she
was trafficked to Libya in 2013, after she was lured there to work as an
Auxiliary nurse.

She also claimed that she was forced to abort about 320 pregnancies for
girls working for the pr0stitution ring in Libya. Abigail who was very
ill during the interview had expressed fear that she would die if she
exposed the Libya human trafficking syndicate. She added that soon after
her rescue, she received a threat from the syndicate in Libya that she
will die if she exposed them. In spite of the threat, Abigail went ahead
and narrated her ordeal in the hands of the traffickers.”